Did you ever bother to know how much networks can play in addressing community needs especially for persons with disabilities? Over time, practice has shown that when development partners join hands in putting together resources rather than duplicate interventions, there is usually a great impact created in the community. CAN …

The Government of Uganda still has a long way to go in ensuring that her interventions towards inclusiveness meet both the national and international legal regimes, a study titled Disability Demands conducted by the Country’s National Umbrella Organization for Persons with Disabilities reveals. According to the study, there are still …

IDA and IDDC recently developed the BRIDGE CRPD-SDG training initiative to support leaders and resource persons of organizations of people with disabilities to advocate for inclusion and realization of all human rights for all persons with disabilities in resources-constrained environments and facing challenging governance and competing agendas and politics at …

The Africa Disability Alliance calls on African Governments to ratify the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa The Africa Disability Alliance (ADA), wish to congratulate the African Union (AU) Assembly of African Union Heads of States and …

People with albinism face multiple forms of discrimination worldwide. Albinism is still profoundly misunderstood, socially and medically. The physical appearance of persons with albinism is often the object of erroneous beliefs and myths influenced by superstition, which foster their marginalization and social exclusion. This leads to various forms of stigma …

Ensuring universal access to essential and affordable assistive technology will be crucial in the attainment of the development agenda for the decades ahead, a report by AfriNEAD, says. The further argues that overcoming impairments, eliminating barriers to enable persons with disabilities to actively participate and become productive members of society …

An online course on Global health and disability is set to commence later this month. Leaving no one behind: disability, health and well being in global development is a 3 week (maximum 4 hours per week) free online course from the International Centre for Evidence in Disability at the London …

Following approval by the ACHPR in April 2016, the draft Protocol was submitted to the treaty-making process of the African Union (AU). This process has now been concluded – the AU Heads of State has adopted the Protocol, which must now be ratified by countries before full domestication at country …

There are many hundreds of millions persons with disabilities in the world. Most of them are very poor. They are not given the chance to go to school. They do not have a job. They do not get health services and social services. Many are isolated. Often they are …